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"Drunken face rushing wind is easy to wake up, heavy qiu hide hands to take a slight warmth." At 10:39 on January 20, 2022, we ushered in the last of the twenty-four solar terms - the great cold, "the reverse pole of the cold, so it is called the great cold". Big cold and small cold are the same as the solar terms that indicate the degree of coldness of the weather, and the great cold means that the weather is extremely cold. The "great cold" precipitates at the end of the year, accumulating the energy of summer and autumn, condensing the frost of winter, and brewing the fragrance of spring.
《During the Great Cold December》
Tang Yuanshu
The wine is self-contained, and the golden furnace beast is warm.
The cold should be close to the fire, and nothing should be opened.
Winter and spring alternate, stars and moons survive?
The Ming Dynasty changed the new law, and MeiLiu waited for YangChun.
There are three marquises in the great cold, one waits for the chicken to start milking, all things sleep for the whole cold winter, and finally wake up at this moment, the chicken is a wooden animal that can perceive the spring in advance, and it begins to lay eggs and breed - hatching chicks.
Another name of "Bird Sign" is "Eagle Falcon", which is a more ferocious bird, "History Disease" refers to fierce and fast, the reason why the Bird is fierce and fast is because the weather is colder during the cold season, and he has to grab more food to resist the cold.
Mizusawa belly is strong, "Mizusawa" refers to the lake, "belly" refers to the middle of the lake, "strong" is the meaning of solidity, in the cold season, the ice on the lake will freeze to the middle of the lake, the entire ice surface becomes very strong, indicating that the weather is very cold. "Mizusawa Belly" is a more underlying cold.
Folk proverbs have "great cold three white fixed harvest year" and "great cold see three white, farmers have enough food and clothing". Three whites refers to three heavy snowfalls. It can be seen that farmers are afraid of being sunny and snowless in the cold weather. This statement existed as early as the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty Zhang Wencheng's "Jin Zai of the Dynasty", it is recorded: "One lap sees three whites, and Tian Gong laughs and laughs. Therefore, the folk have the saying "Ruixue Mega Year".
"The cold is not cold, the people and horses are uneasy": it means that the cold is the coldest time under normal circumstances, if the weather is not cold at this time, it is an abnormal phenomenon, then the future climate change will be very bad, people, livestock, crops will not be peaceful. "The cold is not cold, the spring equinox is not warm." This means that if the weather is not cold on this day, then the cold weather will extend backwards, and the weather will be very cold during the spring equinox of the following year. In the view of the ancients, when it should be cold, it must be cold, and when it is hot, it must be hot, so as to conform to the four time sequences and the laws of life.
In ancient times, when there was no air conditioning and heating, on a bone-chilling night, the Northern Song Dynasty wenwen and humanistic people sat alone in the room, and wrote poems from his friend Zhongmeng.
"Sitting with Zhongmeng at Night"
Song Wentong
The birds flew in amazement and broke the goose number, relying on a few quiet dust alone.
The wind whistles in the north of the house, and the snow on the south mountain is high.
Sleep less to know the effectiveness of tea, and the cold must be sent to the wine to compete.
Yan Bing had closed the lamp and the flowers were old, and they were still embracing the robes of the group of books.
The Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao depicted the severe cold of the weather through "the sky, the north wind, the thick ice, and the short day" in the poem "Bitter Cold Yin", euphemistically expressing the poet's inner sorrow.
"Bitter Cold Chant"
Tang Mengjiao
The sky is cold and green, and the north wind is called dry mulberry.
Thick ice without cracks, short days with cold light.
Knocking stones must not be fired, and the strong yin is seizing the sun.
Tune the bitterness and say nothing, and freeze into this chapter.
The cold reaches the top, and the days warm up in the future, in the cold season, in the clear afternoon, you can already hear the sound of spring water in the depths of the solid ice, and the news that the plums in full bloom are also blooming in spring.
"Xinhai Great Cold Liang Tang Dao Zhongzuo · Part I"
Ming Zhuang 昶chǎnɡ
Spring is warm and autumn cool is not difficult, plum blossoms he loves to look at the snow.
Knowing that he was not as old as Yao Fu, today Liang Tang is a big cold.
Wang Zengqi said in "Confessions of the Qing Dynasty": I once saw an old painting: a thatched hut, an old man holding a crock pot in his hand, inserting a plum blossom branch, was about to put it on the case, the title: "The mountain family Chinese New Year's Eve nothing else, and the plum blossoms are planted for the New Year." ”
The "Great Cold" festival often coincides with the time at the end of the year, and is closely related to the Spring Festival of sending the old and welcoming the new, so the mainland folk also have the saying of "the Great Cold to Welcome the New Year". At this time, in addition to people began to do some things such as getting rid of old cloth and preparing new year goods, folk activities were also very rich and interesting, in addition to the familiar "glutinous", "indulgent drinking", "dust removal", "pasting windows", "bathing", there are also "rushing marriage", "taking advantage of the ruins", "pasting the new year red" and other customs.
Legend has it that at the end of the month, the gods went to heaven to "report on the work situation of the year", at this time there was no taboo in the human world, and there was no need to pick a day for marriage at this time, and it was idle farming, so the folk scene in the old days was "the countryside of The year is busy with marriage", which is the custom of rushing to get married.
"Taking advantage of the market" refers to the rush to collect and buy New Year goods. The period of the ruins is established according to the convention, and is divided into 147, 258, 369 days. Except for the tenth day, every day is a ruin day.
"Pasting Nian Hong" refers to the general term for pasting Spring League, Door God, New Year Painting, Fu Zi, Window Flower, etc., because these are the red festive elements posted during the New Year, so it is called Pasting Nian Red. It is a beautiful expectation of the New Year, the New Year and the new life. Therefore, the great cold festival period is full of joy and joy, and it is a festive and peaceful festival.
The cold has arrived, and we are about to usher in a new cycle. Let us gather strength and wait for spring and the beauty of the coming year.
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